Sub categories list help!

[DGiscombe]

Hi Guys,

I've through other threads and they help a lot with displaying subcats under main cats on the homepage.

One little I want to ask is how to display the subcats vertically.

I'm thinking I use something like [for each] to split the array, but I may be totally wrong.

Can somebody please me help me out, I'm sure its something simple I cant think of right now

Thanks in advance.

[DGiscombe]

Am I right in thinking this a pretty hard task then?

If so, I may have to return the product, which is a shame

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by DGiscombe

Am I right in thinking this a pretty hard task then?

If so, I may have to return the product, which is a shame

Couple things....

Its a holiday weekend and as the post in the announcement forum says 68C is closed for the holiday.

Next, what version of the software are you using and what template, tough to offer help when you dont give any info to go on.

[michael]

Assuming your using v4xx, just go to includes>classes>kernel>Categories.php and insert a <br /> where needed.

              { 
            if($rs['cLink']<>"") 
            { 
                $add_cats.='<a href="'.$rs['cLink'].'">'.htmlspecialchars($rs['name']).'</a><br />'; 
            } 
            else 
            { 
                $slug = ( empty($rs['slug']) ) ? $rs['id']: $rs['slug']; 
                $add_cats.='<a href="category.php?cat='.$slug.'">'.htmlspecialchars($rs['name']).'</a><br />'; 
            }

[DGiscombe]

Wow...

Knew it was something really simple, thanks A LOT

And my apologies about the holiday thing, will definitely pay more attention in the future.

Thanks again

[DGiscombe]

Hey Guys,

I've another category list question, and I think it will be the last of it

Basically, now that I have the cats and subcats showing as a vertical list on the homepage (ver.4xx), could anyone tell me how to display the cat/subcat tables directly under each other?

At the moment, the height of each row depends on the height of the row with the largest amount of subcats.

I think I need to get rid of a [tr] somewhere in the categories.php?

Thanks in advance!

[Eric Barnes]

That one is tricky. The only way I can think of would be to create a three column table. Then somehow loop the categories so each loop is then ran inside one of these three td cells.

It can complex real quick.

[DGiscombe]

Heh heh, I was thinking that as well.

I'm thinking since there will only be a certain amount of categories, I could make col 1 have cats 1-3, col 2 have 4-7 and col 3 have 8&9

Will the rest of the script run ok if I try this?

[SecondShoe]

Originally Posted by michael

              { 
            if($rs['cLink']<>"") 
            { 
                $add_cats.='<a href="'.$rs['cLink'].'">'.htmlspecialchars($rs['name']).'</a><br />'; 
            } 
            else 
            { 
                $slug = ( empty($rs['slug']) ) ? $rs['id']: $rs['slug']; 
                $add_cats.='<a href="category.php?cat='.$slug.'">'.htmlspecialchars($rs['name']).'</a><br />'; 
            }

Where exactly you put this in categories.php?